CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE RUSTIC KIND/II
Paperback, 258/254 pages
£10
As time moves on and people grow ever older, it is tempting to look back on the past with more than a hint of rose-tinted spectacles, writes Jonathan Whitlam. Things were always so much better back then, weren’t they? The truth is they often were not, and when it comes to farming in particular, the past was certainly a much harder and leaner place in which to live – for most involved at least.
For those starting off in a career in agriculture at the very bottom, as a farm labourer, the
